Django REST Framework

Django REST Framework (source code), typically abbreviated "DRF", is a Python library for building web application programming interfaces (APIs).

Django REST Framework resources

• How to Developer APIs with Django REST Framework covers the steps for creating a development environment for your Django+DRF project then creating API endpoints with the test-driven development (TDD) approach.

• The official DRF tutorial is one of the best first-party pieces of documentation on any open source project. The rest of the DRF docs are spectacular as well.

• Django: Building REST APIs is the first part in an excellent multi-part series on DRF:

  • Getting started with DRF
  • Serializers
  • ModelSerializer and Generic Views
  • ViewSet, ModelViewSet and Router
  • Authentication and Permissions
  • JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

• How to optimize your Django REST Viewsets provides a good step-by-step example about using select_related and prefetch_related in the Django ORM layer to avoid large numbers of unnecessary queries in your views. Also, props to the author for wearing a UVA t-shirt in his picture when his blog says he works as a developer in Blacksburg, Virginia (where Virginia Tech is located).

• How to Save Extra Data to a Django REST Framework Serializer is a concise, handy tutorial for combining additional data with the already-defined DRF serializer fields before saving everything to a database or similar action.

• Django polls api using Django REST Framework gives a great walkthrough for creating a question polling application backend with code and the explanation as you build it.

• Django REST Framework Permissions in Depth has code examples and explains permission classes versus authentication classes in DRF.

• Optimizing slow Django REST Framework performance

• Simple Nested API Using Django REST Framework

• Building APIs with Django and Django Rest Framework

What's next after building an API?